Emptiness has its solace in that there's nothing left to take.

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.

God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.

They can call me crazy if I fail, all the chance that I need, is one-in-a-million and they can call me brilliant if I succeed.

One of my rules is: Never TRY to do anything. Just do it.

Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear.

Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot.

We are wise women, we are giggling girls. We both carry a smile to show when we're pleased, we both carry a switchblade in our sleeves.

We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation. Pain is in the history of all human wisdom.

Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society?

I wonder what you look like under your t-shirt. I wonder what you sound like when you're not wearing words. I wonder what we have when we're not pretending.

Fear feeds the imagination.

All fiction boils down to two plots: Either a stranger comes to town or someone goes on a trip.

Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies; he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge.

I like men-inspired outfits.

When you're comfortable, you're more confident - I really believe that. If you're walking around in a dress or a pair of shoes that are uncomfortable, it reads all over you.

If you are watching fanatically over the morality of your children you may yourself be not completely in order.

There's nothing undignified about lying about all day and being waited on by servants, sipping bloody champagne.

If you're going to walk into a scene on a stage, you've gotta know what room you just left and what just happened.

Emailing a meaningful photograph to someone who is not expecting it can change a relationship forever.

I sort of hate the novel when it doesn't push, restlessly, against the tradition and the traditional.